The Light Tank Project
The caption on this photo reads - "Eyal Himelstein and Nissim Ben-Hemo on the light tank prototype". T here's a lot of misinformation on this subject on the internet, a s far as I've seen the photo traces to one book. There is little information on the tank itself in the book. I've translated the text in the hope that people could gather the facts for themselves instead of being confused by bad machine translations or the broken PDF file. The entry is by Nissim Ben-Hemo in a book in memorial of Colonel Yehiam Harpaz, one of the leading officers in the Merkava development program and often called "Mr. Suspension". He was the inventor of the Mark 3 suspension. The entry is focused on his role in the light tank project : " The development and assembly of a prototype for a light tank were carried out in parallel with the development of the Merkava Mark 4. The technical branches were very busy with the many new assemblies that were introduced with...